THREE TYPES OF MEDIA OWNERSHIP
- Capitalist Media
corporations content that addresses humans in various social roles and results in meaning-making. - Public service media
state-related institutions
Content that addresses humans in various social roles and results in meaning-making. - Civil society media
Citizen-control
Commercial Media – ITV, Sky TV
Transnational Media – Netflix, Amazon Prime – Global
Public Service Media – Companies such as BBC who relies on tax for funding, which comes from viewers paying for Tv licenses
Public Service Broadcasting
- What is it? — It is includes all electronic media outlets and its only function is public service. In many countries of the world, funding comes from governments, especially via annual fees charged on receivers (TV licence UK)
BBC – Delivering impartial and trusted news, UK-originated programmes and distinctive content.
- Inform, entertain and educate – A PSB has standards it has to live up to.
2. Are The BBC and C4 unique examples of PSB?
Both of these are unique as it has a full focus on public service.
3. What’s good about it?
- No advertisements
- Diverse, many different types of free consumable media; shows, news, music, etc
- A part of a culture and national identity of UK
- Critical of the government
4. Criticism for it
- You have to pay for it through taxations (TV licence)
- Doesn’t always have something for everyone at all times, not always appealing to everyone
- Is it really fully truthful and unbiased — Involvement by the government?
5. Extra Info
- No offence is on All 4 meaning it is provided publicly through PSB meaning it is easily accessed, freely, by the public.
- It is an original made through the UK, made and produced in London and features female protagonists, it has something for everyone